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Reveals the contemporary art phenomenon of disrupted realism through the paintings of 43 artists at its core

Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819¿ is a poem sequence constructed from historical witness statements of those two days in Manchester. This edition has illustrations from contemporary newspapers as well as an afterword by John Seed. 'There is surely no more radical decentring of the subject/author in modernist writing, ' John Seed remarks of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, in the 'Afterword' to this book. The first part of 'Manchester: Augu...

The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations.

melancholy occurrence is the latest in a series of texts through which John Seed investigates the appropriation and reconfiguring of historical materials. Previous volumes in the series include Pictures from Mayhew (Shearsman, 2005) about which Allen Fisher said: 'The substance of this work is astonishing, vivid, felt with a considerable and sensitive intelligence.' Its successor, That Barrikins, (Shearsman, 2007) was commended by Iain Sinclai...

This book provides a rich and empirically grounded account of relations between religious dissent, historical writing, public memory and political identity in eighteenth-century England. Part One focuses on the ways in which religious dissent in the first half of the eighteenth century created its own counter-history of England, especially of the seventeenth century. Close attention is paid to a number of largely forgotten works of dissenting ...

Although not one of the famous VIPs, John C. Seed, M.D. certainly has had a life that can rightly be called extraordinary. This book gives an insight into this interesting life and offers a fascinating and entertaining reading, maybe also some kind of inspiration.

This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment. As relevant today as when it was originally published in 1988, this classic of the sustainability movement helps us experience our place in the web of life - rather than at the apex of some human-centered pyramid. An important deep ecology educational tool for activist, school an...

This book provides a concise and coherent overview of Marx, ideal for undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his work and thought.  Covering the full range of Marx's works and ideas, introducing all the key concepts and themes

John Seed is the author of eight collections of verse, including: Divided into One (Poetical Histories, 2003), New and Collected Poems and Pictures from Mayhew (both Shearsman, 2005), That Barrikins: Pictures from Mayhew II (Shearsman, 2007), and Manchester: August 16th & 17th 1819 (Intercapillary Editions, 2013). This slim volume brings together his more recent uncollected work.

Every word in this book by John Seed is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the 'Morning Chronicle' from 1849 to 1850, then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, 'London Labour and the London Poor' between December 1850 and February 1852, and then again in the four-volume work of the same title. From the thousands of pages of Mayhew's investigations, John Seed has selected a few hundred extracts from those passages ...

This collection of John Seed's original poetry, most of which has been out of print or hard to find for many years, is published simultaneously with the companion volume, 'Pictures from Mayhew'. Besides bringing together his four previously published collections, the book incldues a substantial amount of uncollected work from the 1990s and 2000s. John Seed lives in London and teaches History at Roehampton University. His work was featured ...

Throughout his 40 year career F. Scott Hess has painted against the grain of the contemporary art world.In this comprehensive monograph, we witness Hess steadfastly going his own way. In the 80s, a period inwhich conceptual art was favored, he emphasized figurative work with narrative themes. His rebelliousnature is further exposed as his career progresses and he confronts and explores societal taboos. Althoughmuch of Hess' subject matter is c...

Despite exalted notions of the author, writers work with the materials they find around them and try to hammer out some kind of new thing with bits of discursive wood lying around and rusty nails and old string and glue. What I am doing here might even be compared to a film-maker creating a documentary out of other people's bits of film and sound recordings, interspersed with some slight commentary. Editing as creative act!" From John Seed's...

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The second volume of John Seed's exploration of Mayhew, recasting the voices from the original text in a Reznikoffian manner, freeing them from the confines of the narrative and thus letting usa hear the voices in a new context. Every word in the book is drawn from Henry Mayhew's writings on London, published in the Morning Chronicle from 1849 to 1850, and then in 63 editions of his own weekly paper, London Labour and the London Poor, betwe...

A concise and coherent overview of Marx, ideal for undergraduates and covering the full range of his works and ideas.>